We ask you all to take your seats if you will. Today we hear from deputy today we hear from john sullivan. I dont think there are many that question the need to improve the operation of both agencies. Operation of both agencies. A more efficient and effective state department in u. S. A. Id would better promote our National Security and our many other interests around the world. So i have welcomed the administrations undertaking. Secretary state Rex Tillerson has started a process here as those that state will tell you where hes focusing on listening to the diplomats and listening to the employees. Our Foreign Service officers. I think this is very commendable. He has sought feedback from the bottom up. Many employees, he reports, have asked, and i think this speaks volumes, theyve asked for more responsibility and in turn more accountability for their performance. They also want better training in a modern it infrastructure. And i think they deserve these tools and we would be all bet
We ask you all to take your seats if you will. Today we hear from deputy secretary of state John Sullivan on the proposed reforms that he and secretary tillerson are working on for the state department and for the agency for international development. I dont think there are many that question the need to improve the operation of both agencies. A more efficient and effective state department in u. S. A. Id would better promote our National Security and our many other interests around the world. So i have welcomed the administrations undertaking. Secretary state Rex Tillerson has started a process here as those that state will tell you where hes focusing on listening to the diplomats and listening to the employees. Our Foreign Service officers. I think this is very commendable. He has sought feedback from the bottom up. Many employees, he reports, have asked, and i think this speaks volumes, theyve asked for more responsibility and in turn more accountability for their performance. They
Theres a shortage of people to do the labs. Is it so coming to eventually. Your beds. The staff, one of the inputs for the total package of defense. The facilities, the isolation centers, a whole bunch of things. In the chart i sent you yesterday, i set out the planned numbers and actual numbers for how were doing to scale. So, if i can draw your attention to the easiest place to start s is people to start, facilities to be in relax and lodgistics and consumers. The dark line shows where we are at the moment. So, we have 15, basically 1539 total beds and spaces in sierra leone. 750 are currently provided by the u. K. All of those are stuffed. Were opening another suite of those facilities over england the next few days and with each organization weve agreed on, there is a staffing, a populated staffing plan from the u. K. And syrierra leone. So, the issue is to make sure from all the sources, which includes the nhs, for the available facilities that staff, at the moment, that is okay e
So more than doubles. The International Panel on Climate Change has actually put more emphasis in this. If youre trying to hit a 550 target and you take ccs off the table, the cost goes up about 50 or really goes up between sort of 30 and 80 for 550. If you want to hit a 450 target the cost triples. Goes up between 200 and 400 . Thats a lot of money, and its just because in some markets coal with ccs is the cheap option. Not everywhere, maybe not in california, maybe not in arizona, but in a whole bunch of markets, in a whole bunch of places in the country and around the world, ccs with coal is the cheapest option for deep abatement, and if you get rid of that cheapest option, you have to replace it with something more costly or less efficient. The good news is weve made a lot of progress on this. This slide is actually a little old, but basically the lower two bars are stuff thats built and operating or will be operating soon because its being built. So right now were here at 2015, we
Policies toward syria in the fight against the militant group isis. Before heading to his holiday vacation, president obama held a year end News Conference this afternoon saying that sony erred in choosing not to air the including the president talking about the u. S. Response to north korea. Lets talk of the specifics of what we all know. We can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. It says Something Interesting about north korea that they decided to have the state mount an all out assault on a movie studio, because of a satirical movement, starring seth rogan. And james flaco. I love seth and i love james. But the notion that that was a threat to them . That gives you some consistency of the kind of regime were talking about here. They caused a lot of damage. And we will respond, we will respond proportionally and we will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. Again, you can see all of todays News Conference by president obama any time on our website, cspan